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Fisher
Contributed by: Newman
  • 1. In which year was R.A. Fisher born?
A) 1875
B) 1925
C) 1900
D) 1890
  • 2. Where was R.A. Fisher born?
A) Berlin, Germany
B) Paris, France
C) New York, USA
D) London, England
  • 3. Which statistical method did Fisher develop to estimate population parameters from a sample?
A) Principal Component Analysis
B) ANOVA
C) Maximum Likelihood Estimation
D) Linear Regression
  • 4. Which statistical concept did Fisher introduce that measures the amount of evidence against a null hypothesis?
A) Standard Error
B) Confidence Interval
C) P-Value
D) Effect Size
  • 5. What was the title of Fisher's last book on statistics, published posthumously in 1956?
A) Statistical Methods for Research Workers
B) Statistical Tables for Biological, Agricultural and Medical Research
C) The Theory of the Design of Experiments
D) Statistical Methods and Scientific Inference
  • 6. Which statistical concept describes the extent to which observed data deviates from what is expected under a given model?
A) Residuals
B) Outliers
C) Bias
D) Confounding
  • 7. What is the name of Fisher's fundamental book on statistics?
A) The Design of Experiments
B) Statistical Inference
C) Bayesian Data Analysis
D) Statistical Methods for Research Workers
  • 8. What was the title of the series of eleven Eugenics pamphlets authored by Fisher?
A) The Design of Experiments
B) Foundations of Statistical Inference
C) Statistical Methods for Research Workers
D) The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection
  • 9. Which statistical test did Fisher develop that is widely used in experimental biology?
A) Mann–Whitney U Test
B) Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
C) Chi-Square Test
D) T-Test
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